On 09 October 2017 at 18:11 by moderation
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It's an amusing piece by German public TV (ARD). So what they wanted to cover was the topic of the US election affected by the evil-Russians....this time using Google.
The angle here was announcing that roughly 3,000 ad's appeared on Google News, displaying fake news and thereby helping to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Generally, the ARD crew were very careful when they told the Facebook news from roughly ten days ago.....leaving approximately half of the Facebook and Russian story out (roughly $100,000 of ad's and centered on two communities in the US only....Baltimore and Ferguson).
The amusing thing is that fifteen Germans roughly....got 'in' and posted commentary to the story before they killed off the commentary (as you see above). Yes, the majority of the Germans who did comment....'thumped' ARD because it's a mostly bogus story. The rating given to the story? Potentially up to five stars? ONE star...was the average.
The moderator crew has to react pretty fast to kill off criticism on the intellectual staff at ARD.
The effort to tell the Russian story to the general German public? I think up until April/May of this year....it kinda worked but then people started to ask questions....stupid questions. And the smart news geeks of the German public TV crowd (both ZDF an ARD) kept trying to tell the story and you'd see people more amused than interested.
In this episode....someone even went to ask in a cynical fashion....could the entire US election have been taken down by 3,000 ads on Google News? Well....yeah, ARD doesn't really want to respond to that because if you pretend it's true.....it just makes everyone critical of the amount of stupidity involved on the intellectual side of telling this story.
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